Attachment for washboilers



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PATENT -OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. BARTLETT, or JACKSON, MICHIGAN.

ATTACHMENT FOR WASH BOI LERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. '7 52, 506, dated February 16, 1904.

Application filed No ember 6, 1903. Serial No. 180,086. (No model.)

To (til whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. BARTLETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jackson, in the county of Jackson and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for VVashboilers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates toimprovements in attachments comprising means for use in connection with clothes-boilers for elevating the clothes after same have been sufficiently boiled, the use of the improvement obviating the necessity of lifting the separate articles of clothing by means of a stick or the like, the latter operation involving no small amount of labor and time, as will be readily apparent.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the ings hereto attached.

While the essential and characteristic features of the invention are susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the application of the attachment to a washboiler, the latter being shown in dotted lines. Fig.

2 is a transverse sectional view of the inven-- tion, parts being broken away. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section, parts being broken away.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The attachment consists of a frame 1, com prising side and end bars, which frame is adapted to be disposed upon the upper portion of the boiler after the cover has been removed. Supported by the frame 1 is a carrier-apron 2, of flexible material, such as cloth, which apron is secured at one end to one of the side bars of the frame 1 by means of fastenings of any suitable nature, and the other end of the apron is adaptedto be wound upon a drum 3, which drum is journaled in openings in the end bars of the frame. One end of the drum extends through a side bar of the frame, and upon this end is disposed a ratchetwheel 4. A crank 5 is likewise attached to the extended end of thedrum 3 and is pro vided with a handle 6 of usual form by which the drum may be operated in elevating the carrier-apron 2. Projected downwardly from the end bars of the frame 1 are integral extensions 7, which extensions are disposed upon the inner sides of the boiler when the attachment is in working position thereon. The extensions 7 are rounded, so as to conform to the contour of the curved ends of the boiler, and these extensions serve to hold the attachment in position by frictional contact with the boiler. Apawl 8 is secured to the end bar of the frame adjacent the ratchet-wheel 4 and co-' operates to secure the apron when elevated to permit the water from the clothes to drain prgparatory to their removal to the rinsingtu The attachment may be made in different sizes to conform to the size of the boiler with which the same is to be used. The operation of the device is as follows: After the water in the boiler has been heated in the usual way the cover is removed and the attachment issubstituted therefor. The apron 2 is permitted to lower with the clothes to be boiled thereon. After the clothes have been immersed in the boiling water sufficiently long and agitated in any of the usual ways the crank is then operated so as to wind the apron upon the drum, and thereby elevate the clothes. The pawl 8, engaging the ratchet of the drum 3, holds the apron and the clothes elevated and the water is permitted to drain from the latter. After the water has drained off of the clothes the attachment is lifted bodily from the boiler and the clothes are carried to the rinsing-water.

The attachment is exceedingly simple, and the use of same prevents jamming of the sides of the boiler and injury thereto, which is ordinarily caused by the stick used to lift the clothes obtaining a leverage upon the upper the invention, what bination with a support, a drum mounted upon the support, and a carrier-apron for elevating the clothes, said carrier-apron being adapted to be wound upon the drum.

2. In an attachment of the class described, the combination with a supporting-frame, a flexible carrier-apron secured at one end to the frame, a drum mounted in the frame and having the other end of the carrier-apron secured thereto,means for actuating said drum to Wind the carrier thereon, and means for preventing revolution of said drum.

3. In an attachment of the class described, the combination with asupporting-frame comprising side and end bars, extensions projected downwardly from the end bars, a carrierapron having one end secured to a side bar, a drum journaled in the end bars of the frame and having an end extended beyond one of said end bars, the other end of the carrier being secured to the drum, a ratchet-Wheel and operating-crank secured to the extended end of the drum aforesaid, and a pawl for engagement with the said ratchet-wheel.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

I WILLIAM J. BARTLETT. [1 8.]

Witnesses: FRANK S. BARTLETT,

GEO. J. GENEBACH. 

